The defense lawyer in the Pirate Bay file-sharing case says he will demand a retrial after the judge admitted he was a member of copyright-protection organizations.A Stockholm court last week convicted four men behind the Web site of helping others commit copyright violations and gave them one-year prison sentences. They also were ordered to pay […]
Reports in the US say online video platform Joost is actively seeking a buyer and has told cable and satellite providers that it could be their online video solution. Time Warner Cable is one of the companies that has expressed interest in Joost say the reports. In the online video sector, Joost has fallen far […]
UK regulator Ofcom has said Project Canvas, the broadband TV joint venture between BBC, ITV and BT, could face a competition investigation. Ofcom, in its submission to the BBC Trust, has warned that the venture could find itself the subject of the same regulatory scrutiny that earlier this year spelled the end for Project Kangaroo. […]
Smartclip, the German interactive video network backed by Endemol founder Joop van den Ende, has launched in the UK as it aims to take a chunk of the online video ad market. The network is designed to allow TV and online planners to buy pre-roll campaigns around professional content through more simple processes. It's currently […]
From Colin Mann in Las Vegas At NAB Adobe has announced a deal to put its Flash software into many of the chips that go inside TVs and set-top boxes. This will enable developers and content providers to create applications to deliver web-based content to TV screens. Flash will be included on chips made by […]
If current growth trends continue, the Internet will overtake traditional TV as the most consumed form of media for the first time in June 2010. Internet consumption in 2010 will average 14.2 hours per week, or over 2.5 days a month, compared to 11.5 hours a week, or 2 days a month, for TV, according […]
Universal Music Group (UMG), the world’s leading music company and YouTube, the Google-owned video-sharing site, are working together to launch VEVO, a music and video entertainment service that will feature UMG's premium video content. In addition to VEVO, YouTube has renewed and extended its successful partnership with UMG that allows users to continue creating and […]
Online video data for March 2009 compiled by Nielsen Online indicates that nearly 10 million streams were viewed. The total of 9.67 billion represented an 8.7 per cent increase compared to March 2008. Unique viewers were up 1.9 per cent at 130 million, with each viewer averaging 74.4 streams, an increase of 6.7 per cent. […]
KIT digital, a global provider of IP-based video enablement technologies, has acquired the assets and assumed certain current liabilities of London-based Narrowstep , an Internet TV platform company supporting content providers, broadcasters, telcos and other corporations. The acquisition expands KIT digital's client delivery capabilities – particularly in live-streaming, long-form delivery and delivery using the Microsoft […]
Walt Disney Co. CEO Robert Iger has told NCTA that cable must find an online model that works for both programmers and distributors, appearing to dismiss a subscription model proposal, TV Everywhere, made earlier this year by Time Warner. "Cable television is vitally important to our company. It provides us with a crucial connection with […]